Plus/Minuses: Grambling State and Appalachian State

by KingJamesIV on Nov 30, 2010 11:17 PM EST in Vanderbilt Commodores Basketball

*** Each game, AOG's army of statistics monkeys laboriously pore over the box score and play-by-play to calculate the mysterious plus/minus game statistics. These are those statistics. Please share your observations via the comments. ***

P/M Unadjusted after the jump...

01: Presbyterian
02: Nebraska (Honda Puerto Rico Tipoff)
03: West Virginia (Honda Puerto Rico Tipoff)
04: North Carolina (Honda Puerto Rico Tipoff)
05: Grambling St.
06: Appalachian St.

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Wow, JT really has been underwhelming this season.

Lowest +/- amongst starters. Only Thunder is lower for guys in the rotation.

by GTwill on Dec 1, 2010 8:21 AM EST reply actions

+ Fuller

by BrianSWard on Dec 1, 2010 10:35 AM EST up reply actions

Taylor ...

his numbers are abused by the first halves of the West Virginia and Grambling State games, and by the fact that he (essentially) didn’t play in either second half. Maybe we would have had the strong second halves with Taylor … or, maybe not … will be interesting to see if his numbers correct themselves closer to the “starter mean” by the end of the non-conference schedule.

by BrianSWard on Dec 1, 2010 10:38 AM EST up reply actions

I love how

Our top four +/- guys are pretty much guys we thought were “role” players coming into the season. Based on the per 40 scores, there isn’t that much difference between Tinsley, Ezeli, Walker and Goulbourne. Our two top guys, Jenkins and Taylor, are more grouped with Tchiengang and Odom, which is just a testiment to our bench strength this season.

by Jason Fukuda on Dec 1, 2010 9:53 AM EST reply actions

Tinsley #1?

Wow – that surprises me. I’ll be very curious to see if that holds up after this three-game stretch (WKU, Belmont, Mizzou).

I would have guessed Festus as #1 by a wide margin.

Last year, IIRC, our starters were generally a notch above our bench players. That there is currently no such distinction is, I think, a good sign.

by BrianSWard on Dec 1, 2010 10:32 AM EST reply actions

Your memory is correct

Through 7 games or so last season:

http://www.anchorofgold.com/2009/12/6/1188002/postgame-vanderbilt-67-depaul-54

This shows that no only are we more balanced this year, but so far, beating teams by a greater margin. Steve, thte 8th most effective player on an adjusted basis is ahead of 5 players from last season at that point.

But Brad is playing really well right now – on the break he is getting the ball to guys for easy scores, and once he gets us into the offense we have been scoring. He is also really doing a great job on the defensive glass, which helps our break tremendously.

by Jason Fukuda on Dec 1, 2010 11:30 AM EST up reply actions